Sage Kotsenburg set the tone on the first official day of the Sochi Olympics when he said: “I’m not gonna just succumb to doing, like, normal stuff… ‘cause I think that’s wack. I just kept going and kept it weird and everyone in snowboarding was really stoked on it.”

The American surprise gold-medal winner in snowboard slopestyle wasn’t alone in his sunny outlook and surfer’s lexicon. With its debut-event excitement and fans’ and athletes’ unbridled joy, the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park has been the happiest place at the Games. Read More »

U.S. Olympian Gus Kenworthy prepares the stray puppies he’s adopting for transport from Sochi. Kenworthy won a silver medal in ski slopestyle.

American athletes have prepared their whole lives to travel to Sochi and bring back an Olympic medal. What most did not anticipate was returning from Russia with a floppy-eared puppy. But the stray dogs trotting around the Winter Games venues have warmed the hearts of many in this resort city by the Black Sea. Some athletes simply couldn’t leave without taking a dog—or several—with them. Read More »

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